by Richard Leahy | Jan 21, 2022 | News/Announcements, Virginia Wine
On Friday January 21st, at 6:30 p.m., join Virgina Public Media’s Tassie Pippert, host of the Virginia wine and cooking show “Un-Wine’d”, as she interviews Veritas Vineyards’ winemaker Emily Pelton on Facebook. The two wines featured will...
by Richard Leahy | Nov 20, 2021 | News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir, Tastings/Evaluations, Virginia Wine
It’s time for my annual Thanksgiving wine recommendations. As a locavore and also as a historian, I promote drinking locally, especially since Thanksgiving is an East Coast tradition (first celebrated at Berkley Hundred on the James River in Virginia, on Dec. 4,...
by Richard Leahy | Oct 13, 2021 | News/Announcements, Virginia Wine, Virginia Wine
Richard Leahy and Jennifer Bryerton, co-Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of Ivy Life & Style Media, are pleased to announce that Richard is now writing Virginia wine articles in addition to those found on this blog, in the monthly online version of the glossy...
by Richard Leahy | Aug 10, 2021 | Events, News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir
New Layout and Features This Year The Maryland Wine Festival returns to the Carroll County Farm Museum on Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, September 19. While 2021 marks the 37th celebration of this tradition, updates to the event’s programming and layout promise...
by Richard Leahy | Jun 27, 2021 | News/Announcements
[from a Monticello Wine Trail press release] Charlottesville, VA – The Monticello Wine Trail (MWT) has elected Winemaker Stephen Barnard to serve as president of the association beginning July 1 for the 2021-2022 board cycle. Current President George Hodson commented,...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 13, 2021 | News/Announcements, Virginia Wine
Ankida Ridge Vineyard, Amherst County It’s April 13th, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is most famous as the author of the Declaration of Independence, which gave a moral justification for American independence, inspiring others sucIt’s April...